Mortality, morbidity, and occupational decline

Sofia Hernnäs ()
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Sofia Hernnäs: Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala Univeristy., Postal: Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala Univeristy.

No 2023:7, Working Paper Series from IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy

Abstract: Does the long-term economic stress of occupational decline cause health problems, or even death? This paper explores this question using Swedish administrative data, and a measure of occupational decline obtained from detailed US data on employment changes over almost 30 years. I investigate whether people who experience occupational decline have higher mortality or hospitalization rates, and in particular if they are more likely to suffer from cardio-vascular disease or deaths of despair: deaths caused by alcohol, drug or suicide. I find that workers who in 1985 worked in occupations that subsequently declined, had a 5-11 percent higher risk of death in the 30 years that followed, compared to same-aged, similar workers in non-declining occupations. For men in declining occupations, the risk of death by cardio-vascular disease was 7-14 percent elevated, while women in declining occupations faced 31-37 percent higher risk of death by despair. The risk was higher for workers who were lowest paid in their occupations.

Keywords: Technological change; Occupations; Health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I11 J24 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43 pages
Date: 2023-03-29
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